Improvement in portable summer grates for cooking-stoves



S. SPOOR. Portable Summer Grate for Cooking-Stoves.'

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Patented July30, 1872.

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IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE SUMMER GRATES F OR COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,907, dated July 30,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN SPOOR, of

Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have inventedan Improved Portable Summer Grate *for' Cooking-Stoves; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof,reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing making part of thisspecification Figure 1 being a top view of the grate; Fig. 2, a frontview thereof; Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical section of the same,looking toward the back, and indicating the position of the grate in thefire-chamber of a cooking-stove.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

My invention consists of a portable or removable grate or fire-pot, A,which is of the proper size and shape to be put in the fire.- chamber ofa cooking-stove, and to occupy a part-say one-half-of the lengththereof, in order to hold a comparatively small quantity of" charcoalor. other fine fuel, for the purpose of cooking to a limited extent,especially in summer, and not heating the stove in which it "is placedto any considerable degree. The

bottom and front side, at least, of the grate have apertures or slots aa. to admit the air for supporting combustion. At the back side thereare notches h h on the upper edge, so as to retain the charcoal andoffer at the same time a free passage to the draught back into the topfiue b of the cooking-stove, Fig. 3. The sides and one end may be quitelow, or

dispensed with, in cooking-stoves suitably constructed to be adapted toit; but the partition-end a, next to the unoccupied part of thefire-chamber, should be high enough to keep the fuel in place. on thegrate to support it at a proper height in the stove fire-chamber. Forsome stoves these legs are not necessary. At one corner f adamper-plate, g, is hinged to the grate, so arranged that it can beswungaround and close the stove-flue, except directly behind the grate,in order to concentrate the draught through the grate. When not thusswung back the damper can be folded or shut up against one end or sideof the grate.

The grate may be provided with a' socket to receive a commonlifting-handle for lifting it out of the stove. i

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A portable grate, A, constructed substantially as described, so as tobe placed in and adapted to the fire-chamber of a cookingstove, andoccupy a portion thereof, substantially as and for the purpose hereinspecified.

2. The damper-plate g, in combination with the grate A, substantially asand for the purpose described.

Specification signed by me this 3d day of May, 1872.

STEPHEN SPOOR. Witnesses:

GEORGE Moss, L. M. RUssELL.

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